Re: Cygwin handling of space-separated usernames

2005-06-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
PCYMTWLL, please - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL * Michael PARKER (2005-06-16 14:17 +0100) > Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin > assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, No, Cygwin doesn't do anything like that. It's bash i

Re: Cygwin handling of space-separated usernames

2005-06-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 16 14:17, Michael PARKER wrote: > Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin > assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, but many > utilities (such as rsh, passwd)that rely upon seeing a non-space-separated > username, encounter problem

Cygwin handling of space-separated usernames

2005-06-16 Thread Michael PARKER
Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, but many utilities (such as rsh, passwd)that rely upon seeing a non-space-separated username, encounter problems when processing logins, reporting user pas